Thread: No hunting under level 3

Originally Posted by Flyblown

The problem for us is that all risk matrices that are used to assess hunting are likely to attach a “moderate” or “medium” risk to the activity, because the highest “consequence” outcome is at the worst level - “fatality” - even when the “likelihood” is assessed at its lowest level, i.e. “very unlikely”.

So when government looks for low risk activities, hunting probably doesn’t fall into this category when a standard risk assessment process is applied to outdoor activities.

The government can't use risk analysis to get themselves off the hook on this one. Looking at the ACC data posted on the other thread, there are no more fatalities in hunting in than other sports and the cost per case isn't higher either. While the latter doesn't take in to account healthcare costs from hunting accidents, I imagine it would be a pretty good indicator. Admittedly, there is no incidence rate for hunting, but the number of overall claims is relatively small.